Recent entries

Everyone has been waiting for QPR to have a ‘wobble’, but they sit proudly at the top of both the Championship and of the ten-match form table, with only one defeat (at in-form Millwall) and only five goals conceded in that period.

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring the horsepower of Shift 2: Unleashed; a new dimension for football sims in PES 2011 3D; dog paint dog with Okamiden; more from AiAi, MeeMee, et al in Super Monkey Ball 3D.

We’re loving Younger Brother here at the Barometer – which is why we’re particularly pleased to be kicking off The Independent’s brand new music blog by exclusively hosting their third album ‘Vaccine’ for a full week before its official release.

Having broken box office records around the world and received countless awards, it’s no wonder Wicked is still going strong in the West End. A year on from when the shiny new cast joined in 2010 and they’re eager to get young people involved in writing by bringing back the Wicked Young Writers Award for a second year. Louise Dearman, who plays Glinda, talks about why encouraging young people to get into writing is important, and her time as the star of the musical that was last year awarded an Olivier Audience Award for the Most Popular Show.

These characters have long argued that mainstream parties like the Conservatives and Labour need to do more to pander to popular prejudices about immigration, arguing that the alternative is to see a rise in support for the BNP.